Double-faced woven pile fabric



(Model.)

JyGoLEY. DOUBLE FACBD WOVEN PILE FABRIC.

No. 558,160. Patented Apry14, 1896.

ANDREW B GRAHAM. PHnw-UTHUWASNINGTON. n.6

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH COLEY, OF VORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

DOUBLE-FACED WOVEN PILE FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent 1\Io. 55e,1eo, dated April 14, 1896.

Appleman tied Juiyr, i395. saturo. 555,717. (Moda.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, .TosErrI COLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Vorcester, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Double-Faced Voven Pile Fabrics, of which the following is a specification. 1

My invention relates to woven pile fabrics, and more particularly to a body-Brussels carpet or cut pile fabric known as Wilton The object of my invention is to produce a reversible or double-faced Brussels or Wilton fabric having a different pattern on each side and a different or similar coloring.

In my previous patent, No. 483,977, I described and showed a double-faced wo ven pile fabric having the same pattern on each side, but a different coloring, and said fabric was Woven from an even number of frames of worsted warps.

My present fabric differs materially from said patented fabric in that I have a different pattern on each side of the fabric and the colors forming the pattern may be arranged as desired, with the saine colors on each side of the fabric opposite each other or different colors, as desired.

My invention consists in certain novel features of construction of my improved doublefaced reversible Brussels or Wilton fabric, as Will be hereinafter fully described and the nature thereof indicated by the claims.

In manufacturing my pile fabric I preferably employ an odd number of worsted Warp-` frames.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l illusof a detached portion of my fabric in the direction of the length of the Warp-threads. Figs. 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are detail views illustrating the position of each of the I'ive colored worsted warps forming the pattern and shown in Fig. l. Fig. 7 is a modified construction of the fabric shown in Fig. 1. The loops in the upper surface are cut to form a Wilton surface on one side of the fabric; and Fig. 8 is another modified construction of `the fabric shown in Fig. l. The loops on both sides of the fabric are cut to form a Tilton surface on each side of the fabric.

In the accompanying drawings, l, 2, 3, 4,

and 5 are the colored Worsted Warps which form the pattern or pile surface on each side of the fabric, and 6 is the stuffer. In this instance I have designated the colors of said worsted Warps as green, blue, white, orange, and redf 7 and 8 are the binding-warps, and 9 and IO are the filling shots or wefts.

It will be seen that the binding-warps 7 and 8 pass entirely through the floating worsted warps from one side of the fabric to the other and that one of said warps, as 7, is raised and a filling 9 is `put into the fabric. Then the second of the binding-Warps, as 8, is raised and another filling 9 is put into the fabric. The lay is then beaten up and a worsted warp 5 selected, as red, (shown at the right in Fig. 1,) appears on the upper side of the fabric. The binding-warps7 and 8 are then carried down through the body of the fabric to the under side thereof, and the two illing-wefts lO are inserted in a similar manner to the filling-Wefts 9, above referred to. The Worsted `warp 5 selected, as red, appears now upon the other or under side of the fabric upon the beating up of the lay. The said Worsted warp may be of the saine color as the one on the upper side of the fabric, as shown at the right in Fig. l, or of a different color, as shown at the left in said fabric, and this operation is repeated.

When the Worsted warps are not selected or called by the jacquard to appear on either side of the fabric to form the pattern thereon, they are carried straight in the body of the fabric between the filling-wefts 9 and 10, as

Ashown in Fig. l. trates, on an enlarged scale, a sectional view I have represented in the drawings a detached portion of a five-frame carpet or pile fabric, in which five colored worsted warps are used to form the pattern or pile surface` on each side of the fabric.

In Figs. 2, 3, 4,5, and 6 the course or position of each worsted warp in the fabric shown in Fig. l is illustrated. Referring to said iigures, it will be observed that the green worsted warp furnishesthe ground on one side and the blue worsted warp furnishes the ground on the other side of the fabric, at the left in Fig. l, and then the white, orange, green, and red worsted warps form the design or pattern on one side, at the right in Fig. 1, and the IOO white, orange, and red form the design or pattern on the opposite side, at the right in Fig. l.

It will be seen that in my fabric two shots or lilling-wefts are inserted between each loop of worsted warp and each filling-weft is bound in separately on each side of the fabric by a binding -warp. I thus produce a much stronger and firmer fabric, and in the case of a cut pile fabric, as shown in Figs. 7 and S, each of the cut loops are secured and held in the fabric by two shots or filling-wefts instead of by one, as in the case of my prior patent above referred to.

In the manufacture of my pile fabric I preferably employ a single wire, which is first inserted on one surface of the fabric to form the loop thereon and then inserted on the other surface to form the loop thereon. In this way the loops do not come exactly opposite each other, but are arranged what may be termed alternately, as shown in Fig. l, so that I may carry the same coloring of worsted warp from one surface to the other and have it appear in the pattern upon each side of the fabric at the same part of the fabric, as shown in the case of the white worsted Warp in Fig. l.

In the manufacture of my improved pile fabric one shot is inserted at each beat of the lay, and at the second beat the second shot is inserted on the same side of the fabric, and the loop of worsted warp is formed on the opposite side of the fabric, and this operation is repeated continuously.

In case it is desired to produce a cut pile fabric on both sides of my fabric, as shown in Fig. 8, the wires used are provided with knives on their ends. I have described my double-faced or reversible woven pile fabric more particularly as a carpet, but it is designed to be used for rugs, or as a fabric for covering furniture, &c.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A double-faced pile fabric, woven from an odd number of frames of worsted warps, and having a different pattern on each side, and different, or similar coloring on each side, consisting of two bindin g-warps running parallel to each other through the fabric, and

passing entirely through the floating worsted warps, from the top to the bottom, and the bottom to the top, and two sets of fillingwefts, extending in pairs in the fabric, with two filling-wefts between each loop of worsted warp, and worsted warps when selected appearing on non-coincident portions of each side of the fabric, to form alternate loops or pile surface on each side of the fabric, and when unselected carried in the body of the fabric between the filling-wefts, substantially as set forth.

2. A double-faced pile fabric, having a different pattern on each side, and different or similar coloring on each side, consisting of two binding-warps running parallel to each other. through the fabric, and passing entirely through the iioating worsted warps, from the top to the bottom, and the bottom to the top, and two sets of lling-wefts, eX- tending in pairs in the fabric, with two fillingwefts between each loop of worsted warp, and worsted warps when selected appearing on non-coincident portions of each side of the fabric, to form alternate loops or pile surface on each side of the fabric, and when unselected carried in the body of the fabric between the iilling-wefts, substantially as set forth.

3. A double-faced pile fabric, having a different pattern on each side, and a different or similar coloring on each side, and consisting of two binding-warps running parallel to each other through the fabric, and passing entirely through the iioating worsted warps from the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top, and two sets of filling-wefts extending in pairs in the fabric, with two fillingwefts between each loop of worsted warp, one of each pair of filling-wefts being bound by one binding-Warp, and the other by the other binding-warp, and worsted warps, when selected appearing on non-coincident portions of each side of the fabric, to form alternate loops or pile surface on each side of the fabric, and when unselected carried in the body of the fabric between the iilling-wefts, substantially as set forth.

JOSEPH COLEY.

VitneSses JOHN C. DEWEY, M. J. GALvIN. 

